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A couple of weeks ago I said I was going to try to get on top of my filing and organising. Well I never did actually complete it, but I hope to this week.

Aside from getting my notes in order it was also meant to kill some time whilst I waited for the marriage certificate of Thomas NICHOLLS and Martha DRAPPER. It was this marriage certificate that proved my undoing.

I wasn’t sure what I going to do with my notes until the certificate arrived, so my organising stalled. I didn’t know whether the notes that I had taken would prove to be relevant to my research or not so I ignored them, then when the certificate arrived I was too distracted following up on that to pick up where I had left off.

I know what I need to do with them now, but I have been distracted and lost the momentum, so I need to kickstart my filing again. There are a couple of pages that can probably be tossed in the bin (but I will keep a record of them, just in case). I also have a few more new postcards and a couple of photocopies to scan as well now.

I am very bad at dealing with incoming information and it is something I need to work on. Too often I just grab the pertinent piece of information from a record and neglect the rest of the information contained in it. Of course I still have a record of all the information somewhere but it doesn’t always get recorded in my family tree.